Bottle



A. MILLER.

BOTTLE.

' APPLICATIONVFILED FEB. 10. 1921.

Patented June 13, 1922.

NrrEo STATES OFFICE;

BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 13, 1922.

Application filed-February 10, 1921. Serial No. 444,056.

Toall whom'it may concern:

Be it known that ALBIN MILLER, subject of the King of England, residing at Prince George, in the Province of British Columbia and Dominion of Canada, has invented new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a construction of bottle and closure for the same, particularly involving means whereby the closure is seated and secured in place, with the purpose 10f securing an efi'ective seal for the bottle when filled and closed and of giving ready access to the contents thereof when desired while preventing the re-sealing orclosing of the bottle by means of an ordinary cork, and hence of providing a bottle which can not be commercially refilled, to the end that it may serve as a,

safe and efiicientcontainerfor original package goods or products; and with; this object in view the invention consists in a "construction and combination of parts of which a preferredembodiment is shown in the drawing7 wherein: I

igure 1' is a sectional view of the neck portion of a bottleconstructed in accordance with the invention, the closing 'and'sea'ling means being arranged in the operative position. A

Figure 2 is a similar view showingan intermediate step in the method of sealing. the bottle.

Figures 3 and 4 are transverse sections on the planes indicated respectively by the lines 33 and 44 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a detail view of the packing disk.

The receptacle in connection with which the sealing device embodying the invention is shown applied is of the bottle type having a neck 10 in which adjacent to the upper edge is arranged a seat 11 disposed in a plane transverse to the axis of the neck and formed by a rib 12 which projects inwardly from the wall of the neck and preferably terminates in a sharp inwardly directed edge, as shown clearly in Figures 1 and 2,'an annular groove 13 being formed in the wall of the neck and above the ledge or rib constituting the seat, the lower wall of the groove or channel being in the plane of the seat formed by the upper surface of said ledge or rib to properly support in a flat condition a packing disk 14, shown in detail in Figure 5, which may be constructed of cardboard or like flexible yielding material.

The diameter .of the packing disk is preferably such as to extend into the groove or channel 13, and it is secured in place to seal the neck of the bottle by means of a retaining disk 15 of metal originally constructed in the form of a spherical segment,

as shown in Figure 2, to provide upper convex and under concave surfaces with the rim or periphery thereof upturned or grooved reversely as shown at 16, said retaining disk being also of a diameter which in its original form is adapted to fit into the annular groove or channel in the inner surface of the neck. ,After positioning the retaining disk in contact with and resting upon the packing disk as shown in FigureQ, the center or upwardly bulged portion of the retaining disk is forced downward into contact with the purpose of directing the bending of the said periphery of the retaining disk. Therefore when properly seated and locked in place by the depression of its center as above indicated, the retaining disk as shown in Figure 1 is disposed bodily in parallelism and contact with the packing disk and has its periphery recurved or rebent inwardly to form a head 17 which eflects the compression of the packing disk to afford a liquid tight joint between the sealing means and the neck of the bottle, and while the retaining and packing disks may be punctured within the area circumscribed by the sharp edges of the inwardly directed ribs or ledges 12, to permit of the removal of the contents of the bottle by pouring, said puncture being effected by any suitable sharp instrument, the disengagement of the beaded edge of the retaining disk from the groove or channel in the wall of the bottle neck is practically impossible or is so difficult as to serve as a means of preventing the unauthorized reuse of the bottle. Moreover even if the rim portion of the retaining disk should be removed from the bottle neck, the location of the ledge or rib 12 adjacent to the upper or lip portion of the bottle neck will prevent the. effective application of a cork or other usual roove or channel'of which the es... as,

means of sealing a bottle. Exteriorly the bottle neck is of cylindrical form or isunbeaded so as to afford no seat for a closure of the cap type.

As a further means of preventing the unauthorized use of a cork, the bottleneck is preferably provided below the plane of the rib or ledge 12 with inwardly projecting knobs or bosses 18 preferably extending inward beyond the inner edge of the seat formed by said rib or ledge.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is 1. A bottle orlike receptacle having its neck provided adjacent to its lip edge with a transverse inwardly projecting seat or ledge and a superjacent annular groove or channel in combination with a metallic sealing diskof concavo-convex construction provided with a reverse peripheral edge for engagement with said groove or channel, the central portion of said disk being depressible to circumferentially expand the disk.

2. A bottle or like receptable havingits neck provided adjacent to its lip edge with a transverse inwardlyprojecting seat or ledge and a superjacent annular groove or channel in combination with a metallic sealing disk of concavo-convex construction provided with a reverse peripheral edge for engagement with said groove or channel, the

central portion of said disk being depressibleto circumferentially expand the disk, the wall of said groove or channel being concaved transversely to direct the inward curvature of the peripheral edge of said disk.

wall of said groove or channel by the circumferential expansion ofthe disk due to the'depression of the central portion thereof.

"4. A bottle or like receptacle having its neck portion provided adjacent to its lip edge with a transverse seat for a sealing device, the seat being formed by an inwardly directed rib or ledge having a sharp inner edge, and said neck further being provided below the plane'of said seat with inwardly directed knobs or bosses.

5. A bottle or like receptacle having its neckportion provided adjacent to its lip edge with a transverse seat for a sealing device,theseat being formed by an inwardly directed rib or ledge having a sharp, inner edge, and said neck further being provided below the plane of said seat with inwardly directed knobs or bosses extending-inward .beyond' the said sharp edge of the rib or ledge.

In testimony whereof he aflixes his signature.

ALBIN MILLER. 

